Creating Stability: Regional Sufficiency in a Reformed System

A senior leadership forum exploring how regional collaboration, commissioning reform and system design can create stable, sufficient homes for children and young people in or leaving care.

About the event

Coram‑i and CoramBAAF are pleased to host a one‑day, invitation‑led forum focused on placement sufficiency within a reformed, regionalised children’s services system.

Building on learning from Coram‑i’s Right Place, Right Support roundtable, this forum will bring together senior system leaders to reflect on how national reform agendas, including regionalisation, can translate into practical, sustainable action at this time of rapid regional change.

The day will combine keynote inputs with interactive workshops and facilitated discussion, creating space for honest reflection, shared learning and collaboration across local authority, voluntary and independent sectors.

What the forum will explore

• Regional approaches to sufficiency and shared accountability;
• What effective, needs‑led commissioning looks like in practice;
• Using data and insight to forecast demand and support better matching;
• Enablers of stability, including workforce capacity, trauma‑informed practice and transitions to adulthood.

Speakers and contributors:

• Dame Carol Homden DBE PhD, CEO, Coram
• Lucy Butler, CEO, Home and Future – South East Regional Care Cooperative;
• Chantel Brown, Strategic Lead, Greater Manchester Regional Care Cooperative.

Workshops delivered by:

• • Neil Eastwood, CEO, Care Friends, and Helen Brackenbury, Support Services Director, Grosvenor Hart Homes
  • Linda Briheim-Crookall, Coram Voice
  • Marie Tucker, Independent Consultant and Associate
  • Louise Burt, Senior Project Manager, Mott MacDonald
  • Dr Emily Blackshaw, Research Manager, Coram

Who should attend

This event is designed for a focused group of senior leaders, including:

• Directors and Assistant Directors and Heads of Children’s Services;
• Heads of Commissioning, Strategy and Transformation;
• Leaders from voluntary and independent provider organisations;
• Regional and system partners with responsibility for sufficiency and stability.

Ticket information

This forum is heavily subsidised by Coram. For the first time, we ask that non‑member organisations make a modest contribution towards event costs, supporting the continued delivery of high‑quality, practitioner‑led system leadership events. 

Once delegates have committed to attend, the cost of each place is chargeable even if the delegate cannot subsequently attend, for whatever reason.

Please click on ‘Buy Tickets’ to confirm your individual place, once this has been approved by your line manager. If you are booking places on behalf of others, please do not book more than one person's tickets at a time. Each delegate will receive an email from Coram confirming that their place is booked. Please ask the delegate to check the confirmation email carefully, and alert innovation@coram.org.uk if the confirmation email is not received.

For those paying via 'Offline payment', we will send invoices following the event.

Tickets:

• Free – Coram‑i members
• Discounted – CoramBAAF members

Early bird (limited availability):

• £85 + VAT – Standard
• £60 + VAT – CoramBAAF member

Standard tickets:

• £115 + VAT – Standard
• £85 + VAT – CoramBAAF member

Places are limited and allocated on a first‑come basis.